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Stand By Me (1986)
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Read more: Stand By Me (1986)Stand By Me (1986) was one of those magical movies about growing up that might come along only once in a lifetime. Stand By Me takes place in the Summer of 1959 and was based on the short story The Body, written by Stephen King. The story and the movie are a rare non-horror ode…
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Logan Lucky
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Read more: Logan LuckyLogan Lucky is a heist film, and with any heist film, you follow the money. In this case the money was not in Las Vegas or New York City. The perpetrators were not slick professional face-men with high-tech mysterious plans to get the goods. In Logan Lucky we are introduced to Redneck Culture and NASCAR.…
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Butterfield 8
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Read more: Butterfield 8The Golden Age of Prostitution
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The Only Living Boy in New York
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Read more: The Only Living Boy in New YorkPretentious is as pretentious does. It is not a good sign for a movie when one of the first things the audience hears is how New York just isn’t New York any more. I’m not sure if New Yorkers know this, but the vast majority of people in this country don’t live in New York…
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The Hitman’s Bodyguard
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Read more: The Hitman’s BodyguardThe Hitman’s Bodyguard. Let’s get this out of the way and get onto the review. Most professional critics, including some of my favorites, hated this movie. Their points are all valid, but I think that the points that they are so critical of are points that are not relevant to what the movie actually accomplished.…
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
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Read more: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of ShadowsWe doubt Sir Arthur Conan Doyle imagined his Sherlock Holmes quite the way Guy Ritchie portrays him on screen. Would he have minded? Now that is the question to pose. We’ve already seen Ritchie’s Holmes in the first movie released in 2009, a daring approach towards a much loved character. All the traditional elements were…
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Villain (1971)
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Read more: Villain (1971)Villain (1971) How about an obscure British movie starring the great Richard Burton and fantastic (and very young) Ian McShane? Never heard of it? Me either, but if you can catch a copy of this somehow, you won’t be sorry. Burton plays the sadistic and murderous gang-leader Vic Dakin. Vic has a few issues and…
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The Road Warrior (1981)
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Read more: The Road Warrior (1981)The Road Warrior (1981). I have no explanation as to why this movie is not in the Ruthless Reviews Movie Archive. Jonny or Matt probably reviewed it and it just somehow didn’t make it over in the 2006 reboot of the site. No matter, a movie of this importance I must review, and of course…
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Wind River
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Read more: Wind RiverThe Great White Hunter The last shot of the movie Wind River has a title card stating that no data is kept tracking the number of missing Native American girls. This is a strange way to end a movie that isn’t about missing girls, but is about solving the murder of a Native American girl.…
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Masters of the Universe (1987)
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Read more: Masters of the Universe (1987)Masters of the Universe (1987) is not really considered an 80’s Action movie except for the overwhelming presence of one Dolph Lundgren. This puts things over the top and into perspective. Like Arnold, Dolph is Adonis, a God, and must be treated as such. The movie sucked at the time, but there were several great…